Wimbledon 2015: Facts about number one seed Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic was born on May 22, 1987; is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1. Djokovic has won eight Grand Slam singles titles and has held the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a total of 153 weeks.

He is seeded number one at 2015 Wimbledon championships. Here are few interesting facts about him...

1. He has won 647 matches in his professional career, and lost 143.

2. He has won 53 career singles titles, including eight Grand Slams, four year-ending championships and 24 ATP Masters Series 1000 titles.

3. With a 7-5, 6-3, 6-1 win over Rafael Nadal in the 2015 French Open quarter-finals, he became the only player to have beaten the Spaniard in all four majors.

4. He is the only man to have beaten Roger Federer in all four majors and vise-verse.

5. Novak became the first player in history to win the opening three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events of a season (Indian Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo).

6. With eight Grand Slam titles to his name, Novak aong with Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and Andre Agassi is at fifth place on the Open Era major titles list.

7. Novak is one of only four men to be named ITF World Champion four or more times, alongside Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer.

8. Novak is the first player to win three straight season finale titles since Ivan Lendl from 1985-87. The only other player was Ilie Nastase from 1971-73.

9. Novak is tied with Bjorn Borg at no.1 in the all-time list of players winning the match when winning the first set. In 2012, he was 63-1 when taking the opener (the exception being against Sam Querrey at Bercy) and overall he is a whopping 566-27.

10. Novak is the youngest player in the Open Era to defeat the top three players in succession (Canada Masters, 2007).

11. Novak is the first man in the Open Era to win three successive Australian Open titles (2011, 2012, 2013).